“Then why do Japanese people put their hands together in prayer at shrines?” International students also asked many other interesting questions—“What are wabi and sabi?” “Why are all ...

as these farmhouse’s steeply slanted thatched roofs bear an uncanny resemblance to the clasped hands of a person engaged in solemn prayer. I love the Japanese word "gassho," and I find it ...

She and her colleagues at the Oka Bokkodo studio in Kyoto were steeped in a six-week odyssey across the surface of a Japanese scroll painting, filling in thousands of tiny holes that have marred ...